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> Hopefully if anything the pause has shown anti-vax folks that the safety of these vaccines is being taken seriously. The anti vaxx community is uninterested

• InitialLastName 5y ago
  As ever, the thoroughly anti-vax community are going to be unconvinceable, but there is real progress to be made on the margins. There are a large number of people who are not inherently opposed to vaccination who are hesitant (for a wide variety of reasons) to take this vaccine. I know people who have gone from "The US government has a long history of medical experimentation on people with my skin tone" to vaccination evangelists over the last few months. This isn't yet quite one of those issues where people are locked in to a narrow bimodal distribution.
  • void_mint 5y ago
    It may be splitting hairs, but I wouldn't really call most vaccine skeptics "anti vaxxers". The legitimate "anti vaxx" community are legitimately uninterested in science. These people will never get vaccinated, regardless of data. A much larger group of people is skeptical of the government and vaccines. These people might get vaccinated, and every piece of information that comes out in favor of vaccination has the possibility to sway some of them. My post was about the first group, not the second.
• ergocoder 5y ago
  Pause or not pause. Anti-vaxx will never be convinced. In whatever way, they will come up with new excuses. I care about whether the vaccine is safe. I would be seriously concern if officials take anti-vaxx into consideration.